MIA: MANDATE
"President Bush will begin his second term in office without a clear mandate to lead the nation, with strong disapproval of his policies in Iraq and with the public both hopeful and dubious about his leadership on the issues that will dominate his agenda, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll. "
(WASH POST)
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Tuesday, January 18, 2005
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CHINESE INFLUENCE IN CUBA GROWS
Saw the Mayor today at the Blockbuster, he told me that the Chinese are strengthening their influence in Cuba. Found this related story in the Kansas City Star: "In his first visit to Cuba, Chinese President Hu Jintao lent strong political support to this besieged nation but also came bearing gifts, including $500 million for a new nickel plant and $15 million for education, health and other areas. Hu even pledged late last month to finance the manufacture of 1 million television sets on the island."
(KANSAS CITY STAR)
Saw the Mayor today at the Blockbuster, he told me that the Chinese are strengthening their influence in Cuba. Found this related story in the Kansas City Star: "In his first visit to Cuba, Chinese President Hu Jintao lent strong political support to this besieged nation but also came bearing gifts, including $500 million for a new nickel plant and $15 million for education, health and other areas. Hu even pledged late last month to finance the manufacture of 1 million television sets on the island."
(KANSAS CITY STAR)
THE BLUES ARE SEEING RED
"The major political battles this year in Washington may not be between Democrats and Republicans in Congress, but between the states and the federal government. 'The principle of federalism has gotten lost in the weeds by a Republican Congress that was elected to uphold it in 1994,' said Senator Lamar Alexander, a Republican and former governor of Tennessee who is an advocate for states on Capitol Hill. 'Conservatives are as bad as liberals about imposing mandates once they come to Washington.'"
(NYT)
"The major political battles this year in Washington may not be between Democrats and Republicans in Congress, but between the states and the federal government. 'The principle of federalism has gotten lost in the weeds by a Republican Congress that was elected to uphold it in 1994,' said Senator Lamar Alexander, a Republican and former governor of Tennessee who is an advocate for states on Capitol Hill. 'Conservatives are as bad as liberals about imposing mandates once they come to Washington.'"
(NYT)
ALL THE PRESIDENT'S NEWSMEN
" The Jan. 7 edition of "Crossfire," CNN's can stand as an exceptionally ripe paradigm of what is happening to the free flow of information in a country in which a timid news media, the fierce (and often covert) Bush administration propaganda machine, lax and sometimes corrupt journalistic practices, and a celebrity culture all combine to keep the public at many more than six degrees of separation from anything that might resemble the truth when it failed miserably to take Armstrong Williams, a conservative commentator, talk-show host and newspaper columnist to task for his role as the frontman for a scheme in which $240,000 of taxpayers' money was quietly siphoned to him through the Department of Education and a private p.r. firm so that he would "regularly comment" upon the Bush administration's No Child Left Behind policy in various media venues during an election year.
(NYT)
" The Jan. 7 edition of "Crossfire," CNN's can stand as an exceptionally ripe paradigm of what is happening to the free flow of information in a country in which a timid news media, the fierce (and often covert) Bush administration propaganda machine, lax and sometimes corrupt journalistic practices, and a celebrity culture all combine to keep the public at many more than six degrees of separation from anything that might resemble the truth when it failed miserably to take Armstrong Williams, a conservative commentator, talk-show host and newspaper columnist to task for his role as the frontman for a scheme in which $240,000 of taxpayers' money was quietly siphoned to him through the Department of Education and a private p.r. firm so that he would "regularly comment" upon the Bush administration's No Child Left Behind policy in various media venues during an election year.
(NYT)
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